Micheál Martin (Cork South Central, Fianna Fail) | Oireachtas source

I commend the Minister of State, Deputy Mary Butler, on the very proactive role she has played in dealing with dementia. She has followed through on the role she played while in opposition when she did some great work with former Senator Colette Kelleher in producing a groundbreaking report. The Minister of State has followed through in implementing the report's recommendations in her first year in her role.

I always regret that attempts were made to politicise the vaccination programme. Sinn Féin has never resiled from endeavouring to do that. No one was left behind in the vaccination programme and it is wrong to say that. The Deputy's party seems absolutely hell-bent on undermining the genuine efforts that everybody is making to vaccinate the population for crass political reasons. I regret that. It is a consistent theme of Sinn Féin and it is not right.

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